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- From: mikeb@ted.cray.com (Mike J. Buchmann)
- Subject: Re: Sears Best? A carpet story
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.155823.25847@walter.cray.com>
- Sender: mikeb@romulus (Mike Buchmann)
- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <1992Aug31.190713.19041@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <Btwxt0.p0@unx.sas.com> <1992Sep2.151245.25373@walter.cray.com>
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- Date: 2 Sep 92 15:58:22 CDT
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- In article <Btwxt0.p0@unx.sas.com> Brendan Bailey writes:
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- > It is this lame half-way-done,oops-we-screwed-up-the-order type service
- > that really pisses me off. When will companies learn that top notch customer
- > service gets results?! Sure, Sears made up in the end (actually, it's not
- > over yet), but we were counting on a smooth delivery during the hectic few
- > days of moving. The frustration and irritation with the door being wrong,
- > and the missing pieces, and the washer flooding will no doubt leave us with
- > poor feelings in dealing with Sears in the future, regardless of the fact that
- > they fixed all the problems in the end.
-
- The Sears carpet story:
-
- On May 6th of this year we ordered carpet through our local Sears store in
- Eau Claire, Wisconsin for three bedrooms of the house we were moving into.
- We wanted the carpet installed before June 1st when our lease on our
- apartment was up. Sears agreed to install it on May 27th, a
- little later then we wanted but it was still ok. We ripped out all the old
- carpet and were ready when they came that morning. My wife had taken the
- day off of work to let the installer in. When the installer came (the installer
- is not associated with Sears and installs carpet for many stores in Eau
- Claire) we told him that the blue carpet went in one room and the other color
- in the other rooms. He brought out the carpet and there wasn't a blue carpet,
- the shipper shipped the wrong carpet.
-
- Sears put a rush order on the carpet and agreed to give us a $100 credit (we
- had to fight for the credit). Sears failed to make an appointment with the
- installers until after the carpet came in and we were on vacation. When we
- returned from vacation, we called Sears and they still didn't make an
- appointment for us with the installers. They finally got the carpet in on
- July 8th (60+ days after we ordered it).
-
- We also requested that our bill be delayed an additional 60 days (120 total
- days) because we wanted to make sure it was in correctly. No problem they
- told us, but guess what, the bill came the same day the carpet did. After
- many phone calls to Sears and the Sears Credit, it appears to be corrected.
- Also they forgot to give us the $100 credit on the carpet. So more phone calls.
-
- We are very happy with the installation of the carpet and will request that
- the installers do our living room and hallway when they need to be done (they
- gave us a list of who they do installing for). The quality of the carpet
- seems to be very well also.
-
- The service at the Sears store was very poor at best. Many phone messages were
- never returned, many times I would be transfered to who knows where and never
- got to the person I wanted to talk to.
-
- I don't think I will be dealing with Sears much in the future.
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